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P. KING.

HARNESS. No. 399,051. Patented Mar. 5, 1889.

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HARNESS.

SPECIFICATION forming" part of Letters Patent No. 899,051, dated TrIareh 5, 1889.

Application filed August 25, 1888.

.[o (LU who/It it may concern: Be it known that I, PAUL KING. a citizen ct i the United States, and a resident of \Vashing'ton, in the District of Columbia, have iuvented certain new and useful Improvements in .llarness; and I do declare the following to heafull, cleaiyand ergactdescriplion of theinvention, such as will cnahle others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the acl companying drawing and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The drawing is arepresentation of a por- 2 tion of a harness showing my invention.

The invention relates to improvements in harness for animals; and it consists in the novel constrnciirm of the straps forming the harness.

It is well known that leather from which the hair has been removed by the process of tanning absorbs moisture through the open- 9 ings left by the hair removed, so that the oils introduced by the tanner are soon expelled or I neutralized by the moisture, rendering the Q leather hard and unpliahle, and also that the pores become filled with dust, so that in subsequent oiling the oil will not penetrate equally throughout the leather. To obviate this difiiculty I construct a harness of animal hide tanned with the i'iatural hair remaining 1 thereon.

All the straps ol the harness, usually 0011- l Serial No. 283,708. (No model.)

Z structed of leather, are in my improved harness constructed of two layers of the tanned hide having their flesh sides in contact and stitched together, so that the hair is presented as a lining and also as a covering, as shown in the drz'uving, in which I have deemed it necessary to illustrate only a portion of the harness.

It will be obvious that the hair on theinner side not only presents a soft padded-like surface to the skin of a horse, but it also repels perspiration and prevents it from entering the leather, and on the same principle the hair on the outer side excludes or sheds rain and moisture. I

The saddle and collar of the harness may he padded in the usual manner.

I am aware that it is not new to line portions of a harness with animal skin having the hair on; but in that event the outer surface unprotected and made of ordinary leather.

Having descrilmd my invention what I claim A harness the straps of which consist of two layers of animal hide tanned with the hair on, said layers stitched together at their edges With their flesh sides in contact, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I a-fiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

PAUL KING.

W itn esses:

C. R. Func'oson, M. P. GALLAN. 

